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Android, Best Practices, Design, Frameworks, Java, Mobile, Testing, Unit Testing

The Best Way to Unit Test in Android: Part 1

by John Sonmez 

July

27

2010

I’ve been doing some development in Android lately on a top secret project, one that hopefully will change the way you run with your phone. In the course of building this app, in a previous post I mentioned that I wanted to [ read more...]

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Algorithms, Database, SQL Server

News Flash: SQL Server Paging Still Sucks!

by John Sonmez 

July

22

2010

Last time I wrote some code to allow paging of stored procedure results in SQL Server it sucked. That was about 3-4 years ago. I just wrote some code to do it again, and well…  It still sucks. Perhaps I’m doing it [ read more...]

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Best Practices, Design, Self Improvement

The Hardest Thing I Struggle With

by John Sonmez 

July

20

2010

I ran up against it again as I was trying to figure out the “right” way to build an android application. Some of your coworkers probably don’t struggle with the issue because they really just don’t think about it that much. But, [ read more...]

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Best Practices, Infrastructure

If You Like Living Dangerously Modify Your Hosts File

by John Sonmez 

July

16

2010

I’ve been seeing it and hearing about it more and more, and every time I do, I cringe. “Hey, how do I test out our web app?” “Oh modify your hosts file so that when you go to wonkywares.com it goes to [ read more...]

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Agile, Best Practices, Process Improvement

Why Small is Better

by John Sonmez 

July

9

2010

I’ve talked about large backlogs being fatlogs here and here before, but I’d like to apply that general thinking to more than just backlogs, and talk about why I think small is almost always the right choice. We can apply the principles [ read more...]

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Agile, Book Review, Kanban, Process Improvement

Book Review: Scrumban

by John Sonmez 

July

7

2010

I just finished reading “Scrumban” by Corey Ladas. This book is a self-published book, which is really a collection of essays.  Be prepared for that before you read the book, so that you know what to expect. It is not a book [ read more...]

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